The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-20


Shock of DisagreeabIe surprise-A Look
of InefTable CONFERENCE.-THE Cubans'
Perfect Good Breeding.
No creature has been more widely carica-
tured, ridiculed and abused than the English
tourist. For many years the choicest shafts
of Paris wit have been aimed at him, and the
pencils of the cleverest of cartOonists of all
Notwithstanding his own-have accentua-
ted his glaring incOngruities and faults. All
TO no purpose The British tourist is to-day
as weird, uncouth and monstrOus a thing as
ne was in the beginning, and will be, in all
probability, in the end. The Englishman is,
at home, the most rigldly proper and correct
of men; abroad he is an icOnOclaSt and a
monument of discOurteSy, stubbOrnness and
rudeness. The tendency to struggle against
custom attacks the best of them when they
travel.
/ met n capital traveller on the steamer
coming down, and, we had previously
come to- ether in New York, we became very
well acquainted He Englishman,
but THOUGH he had a title and single glass,
he was quite devoid OF the usual obtrusive
character tics that go with such luxuries.
He wore Yachting clothes coming down.
Cuban merchant who was on the steamer
asked Us TO so 10 the opera with him the night
of oui. arrival We dined together at the
of his family, who had not appeared at din
ner, and my English friend excused himself
10 "change his togs" He knew that we were
going TO the third largest theatre in the world
20 hear good company sing Faust" to an
audience that would probably include the
hest society in Havana.
INEFFABLE COAPLACENCY.
About o'clock I wandered down the big
marble stairway and found the Cuban family
lnlling about In the rocking chairs that seem
indigenous to the island. 1t was very warm.
The ladies were in full toilet and the men Of
course in evening dress. We waited nearly
half an hour and then saw the clerk glance
I'D the stairway, start back and nudge the
proprietor. Both of them raised their eye
hrows and discovered what experience should
have taught me to look for, but which never
theless gave me a shock of disagreeable sur
prise The Englishman was descending the
stairs with look of ineffable complaCency,
clad in the most absurd forgery In the world
On his head was a huge green cloth helmet
that would have looked big on the head Of an
elephant. Around it was wrapped about two
yards of heavy blue mosquito netting which
fell in two irregular streamerS down the
baronet's noble back.
have neglected to say that he was fat,
pudgy faced little man, with very per-
ceptible "bulge" in front. He wore a long
shooting blouse of yellow and brown check
four inches square. 1t was the most gaudy and
conspicuous pattern imaginable. Over his
shoulder was swung by a russell leather strap
an immense pair of field glasses in case
tattoOed with the owners name and coat
of arms in silver The trousers appertaining
70 the blouse were of white duck and two
inches short This gave the spectator dash
ing view of scarlet hose before his eyes
reached a pair of alligator walking shoes OF
course the tourist carried an umbrella and
dog skin gloves-both are essentially useful
on a beautiful star lit evening in the tropics
PERFECT GOOD BREEDING.
/ never saw more perfect breeding than
that displayed by the Cubans of our party.
The ladies knew perfectly well that they had
a colossal guy on their hands, but they were
as cordial and sweet tempered as so many
angels. 1t CHANGED that the sensation of the
hour and myself climbed into the same hack
He surveyed himself happily through his
glass till he came to his legs. Then he said:
"Rawther short, these trousers, eh?"
Rather. Hadn't you pair of purple leg
Singz or some opera bouffe boots to top off
with?
"Oh, it's 40 use quizzing, you know, for it's
perfectly evident that you're in the dumps
because you haven't a similar outfit yourself.
Come, nowl what do you think OF the whole
thing?D
| told him how we'll thought he would
took in the jungles of Africa or in one Of Of
fenbachs operas but his serenity was COM
plete and he said;
lit is, am sure, quite correct, for it is gen
orally regarded as one of Wilton's happiest
combinations"
Wilton is, believe, regarded at the mo-
uent as being a shade more fashionable
among London tailors than Poole.
He sat in the front of the box, the observed
of all Observers, leveling his big glasses at the
ladies in the great theatre as though they
were miles away. Mephistopheles on the
stage scowled on him, for he felt that his scar
let toggery was nowhere compared to the
British tourists attire. In London the Eng
lish manager forcibly prevents people from
attending his opera unless they are in evening
dress But anything will do when he is
abroad.-Blakely Halls Cuba Letter.
Good Housekeeping tells how to make
breakfast mullins: To make breakfast muf-
fms sift with twelve ounces of -four two